Fortune 50 Pharmaceutical Company Selects A3 Modeling for Enterprise Budgeting and Reporting

Company Rejects Traditional Packaged Budgeting Applications

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — March 16, 2004 — A3 Solutions, Inc., a leader in Excel-based analytics for the enterprise (white paper link) announced today that A3 Modeling, the scalable Web application that automates spreadsheet budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis processes over the Web, has been selected for enterprise planning, forecasting and reporting by a Fortune 50 pharmaceutical manufacturer. The pharmaceutical company evaluated several industry-leading packages and chose A3 Modeling because of the product's ability to leverage the Web to deliver scalability and savings in time and labor while it still preserves the Excel experience for the enduser.

The manufacturer will use A3 Modeling to deploy their budgeting process to over 300 users accessing more than a dozen databases of complex financial and operational data. While the finance department will control the business rules, end users will receive spreadsheet models personalized for their needs.

"A3 Modeling inserts into any existing spreadsheet budgeting, forecasting or reporting process and automates it over the Web," said A3 Solutions president and chief executive officer, Robert Lautt. "By leveraging our customers existing assets - spreadsheet models, business processes and spreadsheet skills - A3 Modeling delivers greater functionality at a fraction of the total cost and time of leading packaged alternatives." To find out more, call 800-666-2823 or 415-356-2300.

About A3 Solutions

A3 Solutions is an innovator in the Corporate Performance Management market (CPM, BPM, EPM). Leveraging its advanced analytic application technology, A3 Solutions competes successfully with market leaders by delivering more powerful budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and executive dashboard solutions that deploy more quickly and at lower total cost. Come to our website (www.a3solutions.com) and see how American Airlines, Avon, Cox Communications, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Safeway, Toyota, Williams Sonoma, and Verizon use software from A3 to reduce the time and labor associated with spreadsheets, increase confidence in reporting and analysis, enjoy more timely and detailed visibility into operational performance, and make decisions more quickly and confidently. A3 Solutions' partners include leading enterprise technology providers such as Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT, News), IBM (NYSE: IBM, News), and Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL, News). A3 Solutions is headquartered in San Francisco, California. To learn more about the company or its flagship product, A3 Modeling, visit www.a3solutions.com, send an email to sales@a3solutions.com, or call (800) 666-CUBE (2823) or 415-356-2300.